{"id":387225,"date":"2026-01-24T02:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387225\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T02:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:50:08","slug":"sa20-2026-results-sunrisers-eastern-cape-beat-paarl-royals-to-reach-fourth-successive-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387225\/","title":{"rendered":"SA20 2026 results: Sunrisers Eastern Cape beat Paarl Royals to reach fourth successive final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two-time winners Sunrisers Eastern Cape booked their place in a fourth successive SA20 final with a comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-229142\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seven-wicket win<\/a> over Paarl Royals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunrisers, who won the tournament in 2023 and 2024 before being beaten in last year&#8217;s final, raced to their target of 115 in 11.4 overs to continue their 100% record of reaching the showpiece event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Quinton de Kock made 25 at the top of the order, while Sussex&#8217;s James Coles finished the job, smashing an unbeaten 45 off just 19 balls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coles had earlier taken 1-15 from his four overs as Royals were restricted to 114-7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They struggled for fluency against both pace and spin, with quick Anrich Nortje claiming 2-31 and spinner Senuran Muthusamy 3-15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kyle Verreynne top-scored with 52 not out but Royals continue their record of having never reached a final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunrisers will face Pretoria Capitals &#8211; who beat them in Qualifier 1 &#8211; in Sunday&#8217;s final (13:30 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Capitals are looking for their first SA20 title. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time winners Sunrisers Eastern Cape booked their place in a fourth successive SA20 final with a comprehensive seven-wicket&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-387225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}